ACN Direct Scam?
 

Anyone here have any experience with these people? They conned someone I know into giving them $500 for the "license" to be a reseller for them. It is a MLM scheme. Looking for intelligent input from the PPOT braintrust. Any outfit that requires $500, or any amount upfront, in order for you to sell their product is a scam. There must be a way to "out" these people. Thank you.

About 5 min with a Google search gave me enough info to determine that ACN is a scam/multi level marketing/fraud.

"$500 to join which gets you more or less the right to call their head office for questions and a super awesome “ACN verification number” or some crap. then you make almost NO commission on your own sales or even the sales of people directly under you, but people 3-4 levels down on the pyramid’s sales start making you money (this is the exact opposite of how a normal healthy marketing business would compensate people)"

Ask your friend how many people they know who own video phones now?

(No comment or opinion on the subject.)
Internet database manipulation might be a problem in the future....if not now.

Doing a quick search using terms "corporate lookup ACN Direct" returns positive indications on the validity of the corporation.
Bing engine returned on the first page: corporate lookup ACN Direct - Bing

Wikipedia says:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACN_Inc.
"ACN began operations in the US in 1995 as American Communications Network"

Ponzi scheme repacked to be (barely) legal...

Of course I did a search before posting the above.
It seems the only ones who make money doing this are the ones who scam the next guy into paying the $500 for basically nothing.
This person I know is in denial.
There is just no helping some people.

What's the saying? "You can't fix stupid..."

"There's I sucker born every minute", might be more appropriate.

Scam, just like Acai (Mona Vie), Amway, Shaklee, Excel, etc...